The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies: nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.

When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment feels like discrimination.

If you cannot achieve equality of performance among people born to the same parents and raised under the same roof, how realistic is it to expect to achieve it across broader and deeper social divisions.

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of capitalism, and it comes from the difference in the value that people create.

Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Inequality is not just about money - it's about opportunity, dignity, and the chance to live a fulfilling life.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Extreme inequality is not an economic necessity, it's a political choice.

Meritocracy is the idea that people should be rewarded based on their abilities and efforts, but it ignores the unequal starting points.

Privilege is when you think something is not a problem because it's not a problem to you personally.

The greatest inequality is to try to make unequal things equal, while the greatest injustice is to treat unequal things as equal.

Social mobility is the American dream; inheritance is the American reality.

Inequality becomes problematic when it becomes self-perpetuating across generations.

The gap between our ideals of equality and the reality of inequality is where social progress happens.

Equal opportunity means nothing without equal starting conditions.

The challenge is not to eliminate all inequality, but to eliminate unjust inequality.

Inequality of outcome is inevitable; inequality of opportunity is unacceptable.

When the rich and poor are separated by such vast differences in lifestyle, they cease to see each other as fellow citizens.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

Natural inequality is inevitable; systemic inequality is a choice.

The pursuit of absolute equality leads to the tyranny of mediocrity.

Inequality becomes destructive when it undermines the basic social contract that holds society together.